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Ted Cruz: “We invested 12 and a half billion dollars in terms of…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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A Historic Year of Victories

Published | Video Starts at 12:32

And we had two major victories this year in the Senate on a, on aviation safety. The first was in the working family tax cut. We invested 12 and a half billion dollars in terms of modernizing our air traffic control. Air traffic controllers right now in the tower, if you look at the technology they've been using, it is literally 1950s and 1960s technology. They're using radar. (12:32–12:38)

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Asserts that $12.5 billion was invested in modernizing air traffic control.

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